SSEH3345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: William Thierry Preyer, Prenatal Development, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
16 Jun 2019
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Observation period > parents interested in infants > infancy is the most dramatic rapid period of change. German philosopher - study of motor development. Studied son"s sensory, motor, language and cognitive behaviour from 0-30 months. Profoundly handicapped (social) - known as wild boy. Took measurement of child"s head, head"s circumference grow over time. Scienti c insights could be gained through observation. He encourage mothers to observe their newborn by keeping diaries and making observations. Babies sit like monkeys, with soles of their feet. Inborn biological processes result in a universal sequence of movement skill acquisition. Maturationist period - motor development is a gradual unfolding of predetermined patterns driven by internal structures. > internal structures: genes and central nervous system. > environment may speed or slow process of change but it cannot change biological course. Law 1: development proceeds in a cephalocaudal direction (head to toe) Grasp with palm and ngers - 6 months.
